[hacker voice] angelou cat /etc/passwd. I'm in. RE:

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Charlie Stross (@cstross.bsky.social)

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The liklows were *supposed* to be a surprise

Actually a pretty good diagram RE:

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Jake Gold (@jacob.gold)

Wow! This is actually *really* useful as a teaching tool. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Every public rust bug drops productivity across the industry as every typescript developer rushes to post something obnoxious about it

Every time somebody makes a slack channel like `team-backend` I make another one named `team-backend-cool` just like the CIA handbook taught me

Okay I’m up to 30k records per second backfilling into mysql on a framework desktop. The sync tool can do up to 40k/s. Going to try a few more tweaks but that’s not bad. After that I need to let it rip longer and see how it degrades. So far I’ve been stopping at 10M records.

I mentioned this a week ago and got a few "no thanks grandpas" - which, fair, I get it. But people want to find their friends! We resolved not to touch this until we could reasonably solve enumeration attacks and consent from all parties. I'm optimistic, but we're presenting for scrutiny now RE:

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AT Protocol Developers (@atproto.com)

"Find friends by phone" is a common tool in social networks. We're proposing a secure scheme and requesting comments from the dev community. Goals...

Vibe coding to make slop-of-the-line software

Pirates: arr Pirates with an MBA: ARR

I'm benching backfills into a mysql database. Other than batch inserts, any suggestions on maximizing performance?